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htop for Snow Leopard

22 Feb 2010
Posted by Jeet Sukumaran

htop is an interactive process viewer, like top, but greatly enhanced in many respects. The main code base relies on the virtual directory '/proc', which does not exist in OS X. However, thanks to the generosity and smarts of Andy Armstrong, an OS X port is available, and can be cloned by: 

$ git clone git://github.com/AndyA/htop-osx.git

Building this under Snow Leopard requires you to checkout the 'osx' branch:

$ git checkout -b osx origin/osx

and set your 'CFLAGS' environmental variable to specify a 32-bit build:

$ export CFLAGS="-m32"

before the actual build:

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
For those of you that want to skip all this, I have made the Snow Leopard build available here.
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Very nice. But ...

Thanks very much for this. I built it on Snow Leopard and it seems OK, except when I hit F6. Then it just crashes.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 23rd, 2010 at 3:57 pm.

git

git git://github.com/AndyA/htop-osx.git

makes no sense.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 23rd, 2010 at 3:50 pm.

should be "clone"

Sorry, missed the "clone" command. Fixed now.

Posted by Jeet Sukumaran on May 24th, 2010 at 5:01 am.

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